Close seats liveblog

Friday 10:54pm - The 3CP count in Ryan remains just slightly behind the primary vote count in terms of completeness, and Elizabeth Watson-Brown's lead...

Close seats tracking, part 3 – the 3CP counts

The Australian Electoral Commission has now started publishing three-candidate-preferred counts for some electorates where the final two are not clear. They have published seat-level...

Close seats tracking, part 2

For tonight's update, I'm going to first touch on the races I included in this morning's post and how they have changed. Those are...

Close seats tracking, part 1 – the conventional close races

At the time of writing on Monday evening, there appear to be 17 close seats worth following over the next few days. By my reckoning...

Podcast #148: A record-breaking election

Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss the results of yesterday's Australian federal election, which produced Labor's best result...

Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night

Good morning, I have been writing this blog post after getting home to wrap my own head around the scale of the count. I...

Election night open thread

Polls have just closed on the east coast. You can discuss the election results here tonight. I won't be liveblogging tonight - I'll be helping with...

Election day open thread

Polls have just opened on the east coast in today's federal election. I won't be posting today, but you can discuss the election here. I'll put...

Federal election prediction thread

I don't have another idea for today's blog post, so why don't we use this as a thread for everyone to make their final...

How wide is the hung parliament zone?

Primary votes for major parties have hit a record low, and they may break that record this weekend. There are also more crossbenchers in...